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Opponents have charged that this would destroy job, drain the state's water supply (through the requisite washing of cans and bottles) and prove costly to taxpayers. A study sponsored by Governor King's office however, showed that the provision would create a net increase of over 2000 jobs as well as decrease water use and costs of garbage disposal and collection...
Much of the dialogue confuses grandiosity with meaning, and often degenerates into pretentiousness and pomposity. "I SHALL MOVE A MOUNTAIN!" Fitzcarraldo shouts exultantly, as the subtitles drain their stock of capital letters. "I want my opera house!" he screams, staggering around the church beltry that overlooks the squalid shantytown where he proposes to build it. Long before the film is over, this sort of rhetoric sounds as tinny, hollow, and mechanical as the old Caruso 78s that constantly blare out of Fitzcarraldo's favorite icon, his gramophone...
...southern part of Africa while controlling the situation at home. But the price of gold plunged from $820 an ounce in 1980 to $300 in mid-1982. A severe economic crunch has resulted, and South Africa is learning the hard way that billions spent on weapons and prisons drain resources and cripple an economy...
Police estimated the value of property stolen from October 8 to October 15 at $4084.01, including a drain cleaner, box of hot dogs and an answering machine...
...done and we do it," he says of his job. White concedes that the job can be tough; in addition to occasional burns and flooding that can force the men to work knee-deep in water, the heat causes a great deal of fatigue. "The steam seems to drain the energy right out of you sometimes," he says Nevertheless. White--who receives no extra salary for spending his days underground--views his work matter-of-factly and points with pride to the money he and his co-workers save the University by repairing steam leaks. Of his years...